Not to say that flipped instruction is bad or wrong, but it must be done for the right reasons. Here is an article about one instructors experience with flipping to give some counterpoint. http://plpnetwork.com/2012/10/08/flip-love-affair/ To sum it up, it's about personalization. Kill the textbook, free the student. On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Otmar K. Foelsche wrote: from [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> I would be very interested to see what the community of technology facilitators has to say about "flipping the classroom", which seems to involve some reversal of roles between language technology and the teacher. I really do not have a solid understanding of this topic, which is beginning to show up at ACTFL and as a discussion point at tech workshops. TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D. Professor of French University of Tennessee at Martin Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-gate Intercultural Web Project ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org<http://iallt.org/>. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) ************************************************************************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Clayton Mitchell Educational Technologist: World Languages & Cultures College of Arts & Sciences Drake University Meredith rm. 215 2805 University Ave. Des Moines, IA 50311 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (iChat) thecman (twitter) (515) 994-0654 voice (515) 271-1870 fax ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~